Timothée chalamet’s mom taks US apartment hunting – ryan

Showing Apartment 17A at 1600 Broadway.
Photo: Ben Berkes

It ‘s rainy, Gray March Afternion, not the optimal time to see a midtown apartment 17 floors Above the Times Square M & M’s Store. “It Normally Gets Great Light,” Nicole Flender Says to the Potential Buyers, an Italian Couple Looking for a Manhattan Pied-à-Terre. They Peer out the unit’s Windows, a giant neon Krispy Kreme Sign Shining Through the fog. Flender Cheerfully Explains The Building’s Friendly Rental Policy and that the price, $ 949,000, is good for the market. “This Wold Be a Great Investment,” she says to the Italians, who seem to have no idea that this petite uggs-wearing real -state agent is Timothée Chalamet‘s mother.

Flender haen selling real estate with corcoran for nearly a decade, Ever Since Her Husband, Marc Chalamet, A French Journalist Who Now for the Un, Spotted a Groupon Deal for Discounets at the New York Real Estate Institute. Flender was working as a dance teacher in new York City Public Schools at Time, and Her Children – by That Point Working, But Not Famous, Actors – Had Left The Nest: Call by by your name, and his elder Sister, Pauline, was at Acting School in Paris. At Corcoran, The Manager Interviewing Her was skeptical. She Needed to be able to network in this business. Who did she know?

Plenty of People, Flender tells me, after she sees off her clients with an “arrest “And we settle into an oversize leather love as in the building’s lobby. Flender’s first listen was a coup: the new Vacant $ 1.5 Million of Jerry Bock, The Broadway-Musical Composer Famous for Fiddler on the roof(Her New York Accent Comes Through on the r ‘S in “Jerry”). She got it through connections that long predate Timmy and Pauline’s Success. Flender’s Father, Harold, Was a Comedian and Novelist Whose Book Paris blues was adapted into a movie Starring Sidney Poitier. Her Mother, Enid, Was a Broadway Dancer. Her Brother, Rodman, Was a Child Star Who Became a Writer and Director. Both she and her brother commute by subway to la Guardia High School. In the ’70s, Their Family Was Among the First to Move Into Manhattan Plaza, the Subsidized-Housing Complex in Hell’s Kitchen where the Majority of Tenants Had to perform artists, through the City’s Mitchell-Maha Program. Their Neighbors Included The Then-30-Something Larry DavidWho Lived Next to a Comedian Named Kenny Kramer, The Inspiration for the Seinfeld Character.

Flender Went to Yale, then danced after gradation on Tours of Hello, Dolly! and A chorus line. Eventually, she got her master’s at nyu in french literature and live in Paris, Teaching English as a Second Language. AFTERWARD, She WORKED IN A Call Center Seling Skin-Care Products. “I was good at Sales,” she Says. She Compares the Hustle of Meeting Clients and Getting References in Real Estate to the Hustle of Meeting Choreographers and Directors and Getting Acting Jobs: “You have to be personable and like talk to people.

She and Chalamet Got Married in 1985 and Rened an Apartment in Midtown. Soon after Pauline Was Born, Flender Got off the Wait List for a Coveted Apartment at Manhattan Plaza and the Family Moved in a Few Floors Above Her Mother. This meant that time kids were able to have the kind of city chilldhood that she and her brothmer did, commuting to la Guardia and doing homework between dance lessons and casting calls. For a while, Flender was a tony voter through her leadership position in the actors’ equity union, and thymmy and pauline spent school nights show in broadway theaters.

Nor they got Older, Pauline Started Attending the School of American Ballet and Timmy Began Getting Acting Gigs on Shows Like Law & Order. But there was no Way Flender was going to become a momager. She was Still Working Hersself-Teaching Dance, Writing for A Few Performing-arts warehouses, and Acting Occisionally. Luckily, Enid was able to take timmy to auditions and tan to north carolina to film Homeland. “IT REALLY DID A Village,” Flender Sayys. There were a few time when she has had to step in her kids’ behalf, momma rose style, like wen pauline was downgraded from a principal to a background actor while on the set of set Royal Pains.Flender Called Sag-Aaftra and Got the Show to Change Her Contract: “She got the residuals for years.”

As Children Laden With Bags from the M & M’s Store Clog the Street in Front of the Lobby’s Double DOORS, I KAS Flender if she has viral clip of Timmy Talking About Being a Mitchell-Lama Kid on theo von’s podcast (“oh yeah, the restaurant stars or whats?” Response). She hasn’t, but she seames pleasantly surprised that anyone cared or the case what the program was. “People like that? Oh, good,” She Says, Smiling. Having Known Nothing ELSE, Flender is Matter-of-Fact About Her Powerhouse Acting Family, With Its Multiple Generations of Working-Class Performers, Whose Primary of Privilege is Their Subsidized New York Housing: thought, We’ll See.”

Of Course, Flender’s Children Have Long Since Graduated from the Mitchell-Lama Incom Caps. Timmy Recently Boughht a House in Beverly Hills priced at $ 11 million. “Did he ask for my advice? No,” She Sayys, Laughing. “Hey said, ‘guess what? I bought a house. (“I have to say she’s lovely,” Flender Says of Jenner. Flender Says she won’t be following eather of around; She has no plans to leave Manhattan Plaza or the City, where she still Substates-Teaches in Public Schools and Recently Acted in a Short Film ABout a Bird-Watcher in Central Park. “Waled you like your mom to be trailing you everywate?” She asks. “I Like Being Able to Go Visit I say.”

Plus and Still Likes Selling Real Estate. She recently helped a client flip an apartment on 33 Riverside drive, where the gersshwins once lived. She’ll take rentals, too; She has a one-bedroom condo in hell’s kitchen for $ 4,000 a month right now, and she’ll occsionally help out Friends of Timmy’s and Pauline’s. And She’s Close with Her Fellow Corcoran Agents – A Group of Manhattan Moms, Many on Second and Third Careers. (In november, she took a few of say to a special screening of A Complete Unknown.) Still, “I will get some weird calls and emails nansing for autographs and things like that,” she says. “One guy calmed with to sell a very nice apartment on 53rd street. I SaID, ‘How did you find me,’ and he said, ‘i like your son’s movies.’”